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A cat-and-mouse game across the skies.A summoned apocalypse.The fate of the world hangs in the balance.June, 1929 finds the Daedalus crew in the Peruvian mountains, working with an old comrade to retrieve a sacred artifact stolen from a native tribe.Handed one last mission by Edison himself, "Captain Stratosphere" Jack McGraw, Dorothy "Doc" Starr, and the rest of the crew head to Seattle, where an aerospace innovator will re-fit the Daedalus with a weapon system for testing off the coast of British Columbia.But the routine mission becomes a perilous fight for survival, both on the ground and in the air. For Aleister Crowley and Maria Blutig have summoned a storm which threatens to open an eldritch dimension, ending the world as we know it.Can a haggard and wounded crew fight a war on two fronts, while a secret strike team raids Crowley's lair, in the desperate hope of staving off the apocalypse?
A fierce battle at the top of the world, against a most ferocious enemy. November, 1928 finds Dorothy "Doc" Starr and Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps them for a new assignment - investigate the source of a strange radio signal originating from somewhere off the northern coast of Greenland.When their home is attacked by agents of the Silver Star, they know Aleister Crowley has gone on the offensive.In an upgraded Daedalus, the crew recruits an Inuit guide and heads into the Arctic expanse, where they encounter savage storms, ravenous predators, Russian mercenaries, the mysterious descendants of Viking explorers, and hordes of the reanimated dead.With wounded crewmembers, a disabled airship, and the Silver Star in the vicinity, Jack and Doc must race to find the source of the signal and prevent a ghoulish apocalypse.
The hunt for an elusive enemy becomes an epic voyage of discovery & horror.May, 1927 finds the combined crews of the airships Daedalus and Percival in coordinated pursuit of the Silver Star commando forces that murdered Duke's original crew and took Rivets hostage.Intervening in a tribal uprising in Kenya, "Captain Stratosphere" Jack McGraw & Dorothy "Doc" Starr find their replacement mechanic in the form of a young Kikuyu woman and technical prodigy.Fighting their way through the markets of Bombay to the streets of Bangkok, braving storms and enemy attacks at every step, Jack, Doc, and the rest of the Daedalus crew must voyage to the far side of the world, where a mysterious island and its inhabitants are in dire peril. Along the way, they must learn to trust new allies and set aside old notions of empire.
This novelization of the original Airship Daedalus comic strips and radio dramas is chock full of 1920s aerial action, adventure, romance, occult magic and weird science, in the classic pulp tradition!
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